As Hurricane Helene devastates much of the Southeast, hitting hard a state whose governor (and government) has banned the words “climate change” from most official documents, some might be wondering when President Biden will pull out a sharpie and whether nuclear weapons are being discussed in the White House Situation Room. For any failing to […]
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Hurricane Helene: Deploy the Sharpies & Nuclear Weapons (and don’t say climate change)
September 27th, 2024 · Comments Off on Hurricane Helene: Deploy the Sharpies & Nuclear Weapons (and don’t say climate change)
Tags: 2024 Election · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate crisis · climate delayers · climate disruption · climate mitigation · Donald Trump · Kamala Harris · Sea Level Rise · Trump · Trump Administration
In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise
January 7th, 2023 · Comments Off on In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise
In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, warming within the lifetimes of people on earth today. Well, their lifetimes if they survived the enormity of climate catastrophes and disruptions that warming […]
Tags: climate change · climate crisis · climate disruption · Sea Level Rise · Washington Post
Going to war to pollute more …
June 17th, 2019 · Comments Off on Going to war to pollute more …
Many aware of climate change science and the (mounting) risks of climate catastrophe have long analogized the situation to World War II mobilization — in expressing the scale of the challenge, that the United States (and humanity) has the ability to rise to a challenge of such scale, and the level of existential threat that […]
Tags: climate crisis · climate delayers · climate disruption · tar sands
Romping through RCPs: powerful CliFi from Tobias Buckell
January 2nd, 2018 · 1 Comment
Tobias Buckell is a prolific and thought-provoking science fiction writer with a number of CliFi (climate fiction) books and short stories. For example, the Arctic Rising series‘ first book is described thusly: Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international […]
Tags: climate change · climate disruption · Global Warming
Digging mass graves for #climate-driven heat wave in Pakistan: “Thank G-d we are better prepared this time …”
May 23rd, 2016 · Comments Off on Digging mass graves for #climate-driven heat wave in Pakistan: “Thank G-d we are better prepared this time …”
The South Continent is, again, going through a massive heat wave with devastatingly hot temperatures in Pakistan and India. In 2015, the 1,300 killed in the heat wave overwhelmed capacity “and the fast-decaying corpses couldn’t be buried quickly enough.” Here is a sad, yet tangible example of adaptation in the face of mounting climate-change impacts: […]
Tags: climate change · climate disruption
Start saying everything is related to #climate change. Just start it.
January 1st, 2016 · 3 Comments
Simply put, amid weather extremes occurring within a climate change(d) world, too many are not connecting the dots as to the relationship between climate change and the hottest year on record/North Pole warmth/Mississippi flooding/flowers in a DC garden on New Year’s day/…. This is a repost of a 2011 piece (that has a rich 290 comment discusion […]
Tags: climate disruption · Global Warming · journalism · media · weather